The Devil to Pay by K.C. Bateman

The Devil to Pay by K.C. Bateman

K.C. Bateman made an impactful entry into the historical romance genre in 2016 with To Steal a Heart, a Napoleonic Era romantic adventure featuring a former acrobat-turned-informant and a sexy spy, which I loved and rated a DIK.  The other books in her Secrets and Spies trilogy were similarly enjoyable, and I’ve been eagerly waiting…

Death in the Floating City

I’ve been a fan of Tasha Alexander’s Lady Emily series since Emily’s first appearance in And Only to Deceive. Emily has gone through a lot of changes and solved many mysteries since then. The latest entry finds Lady Emily and her husband Colin in Venice to investigate a recent murder. However, classical scholar Emily is…

Immortal

Immortal is rather a hard book to pigeon hole. The title suggests vampires, but it’s not a novel of the paranormal, unless you count the fact that the protagonist ages abnormally slowly, over the course of centuries instead of years. If pressed I would say this is historical fiction because so much of the book…

The Borgia Bride

One of the greatest difficulties of translating real history directly into fiction is that the ending has already been written. Happy ever after or tragedy, the author must live with the facts. <!– var browName = navigator.appName; var SiteID = 1; var ZoneID = 4; var browDateTime = (new Date()).getTime(); if (browName=='Netscape') { document.write('‘); document.write(”);…

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